Message from Via Campesina at Tunis, Tunisia World Social Forum
Tunis 2013: If we rely on corporate seed, we lose food sovereignty
Via Campesina - March 31, 2013
It has become crucial to defend seeds. In the past 20 or 30 years, what was once seen as normal – peasant farmers growing, selecting, saving and exchanging seeds – has come under attack from corporations seeking to control and commodify the very basis of agriculture.
This was the subject of the session at the World Social Forum in Tunis on Peasant Seeds jointly organized on March 28, 2013 by La Vía Campesina, GRAIN and the ETC Group.
Monsanto's win: Democracy's loss
Monsanto Protection Act': 5 Terrifying Things To Know About The HR 933 Provision
By Connor Adams Sheets | March 27 2013 3:03 PM
The "Monsanto Protection Act" is the name opponents of the Farmer Assurance Provision have given to this terrifying piece of policy, and it's a fitting moniker given its shocking content.
President Barack Obama signed a spending bill, HR 933, into law on Tuesday that includes language that has food and consumer advocates and organic farmers up in arms over their contention that the so-called "Monsanto Protection Act" is a giveaway to corporations that was passed under the cover of darkness.
Urgent: Call Obama's office today to tell him to veto this Monsanto rider
"Tucked inside a short-term funding measure that Congress approved Thursday is a provision that critics are denouncing as a "Monsanto Protection Act."
